Ineffectiveness of antibiotics becoming a worldwide problem

The United Kingdom has ranked the ineffectiveness of the antibiotic medications used to treat infections in countries like England, as a high priority heath problem, going as far as to say that in twenty years they may not be able to fight them at all. In an article for the for the online BBC News' News Health, called,' Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism'-medical chief', there is a huge concern that the battle to contol deaths from infections/infectious disease may not be winnable there. A Professor in Great Britain, in the article by BBC correspondant Fergus Walsh, called the lack of current antibiotics to cure infections,"a ticking time bomb" The Professor, Dame Sally Davies, said," If we don't take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment, where infections kill us as a result of routine operations." She encouraged the development of new antibiotics, even though this type of manufacturing wouldn't be seen as profitable, by phamaceutical companies. Hospitals in the UK are seeing a growing number of patients admitted with infections that are resistant to the antibiotics currently used. The author believes that if things continue as they are, standard surgical surgery procedures, such as hip replacements, would be much riskier, due to higher rates of infection. In the UK, no new classes of antibiotics have been introuced since1987. The studies in the United Kingdom, say that Medical students and physicians are given inadequate education in antimicrobial resistance ( infectious diseases not responding to current treatments). Professor Dame Sally Davies, sees the these treatment-resistant infections as "...a global issue for governments, the medical profession, the pharmaceutical industry, and individuals." Read more about this topic at at http://www.bbb.co.uk/news/